Azerbaijan after the Presidential Elections: Internal and Foreign Policy Dynamics
... Nurulaev called for strengthening strategic ties with Pakistan to quickly resolve the Karabakh conflict, and Gudrat Hasanguliyev promised to return "lost lands" in case of his victory . Set against the other candidates competing in populism, Ilham Aliyev maintained the image of a respectable politician, although he did not escape the rigid rhetoric about Karabakh. What is the sense of shifting the election’s date then, if the result was quite predictable? Sergey Markedonov: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: At the Crossroads of Foreign Policy Interests Formally, the elections were shifted because of the ceremonies dedicated to the centenary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first national state of Azerbaijanis, proclaimed ...